“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are looking for the author of Seagull, and I tell you I am looking at him. [...] But I am looking at all that is visible of the author of Seagull, and you should know him best of all. [...]

(9:55.) Some people looked, and are looking, for some authority — any authority — to make their decisions for them, for the world seems increasingly dangerous, and they, because of their beliefs, feel increasingly powerless. [...]

[...] The hypnotist, however, is important in that he acts as a direct representative of authority.

[...] In cases of therapy, an individual is already frightened, and because of the beliefs in your civilization he looks not to himself but to an authority figure for help.

They depend upon conventional authorities for relief. Ruburt was working beyond such authority, and yet his own sense of safety and value had not grown sufficiently so that he could depend upon his own newer beliefs, either. [...]

[...] Instead of charging hardcover losses against taxes as a business expense, say, they charge the author for them; this means they do not have to pay the author any royalties on paperback sales, for at least several years. [...]

[...] This is tied in of course with your experience in general regarding the members of the medical profession, and here symbolically you strip the doctor of his assumed authority, and see him more like a hired man—a plumber or mechanic, perhaps, but devoid of any deep philosophical bent. [...]

[...] He feels that he is supposed to be an authority, telling people to go ahead, and so fear should be beneath him. [...]

[...] To answer one letter would draw its author to our doorstep at once: “I am your Seth,” and: “I will visit you as soon as I hear from you.” [...]

[...] It would be for the author to conduct a survey of the surviving members of families involved in such accidents, to study the after-effects, see what changes the tragedy had brought about in their lives, their habits, ways of thinking and looking at life—in short, the detailed study of each family case history would comprise an intimate, in-depth probing of all the complicated effects that had resulted from that single tragic event.

(I told Jane that the farther back the author could reach for his studies, the better, so as to have more room for study as far as the passing years were concerned —say that he interviewed a man of 40 whose father had been killed while the boy was 19, say. [...]

Give us a moment … In Ruburt’s dream, he is completely re-educating the part of himself that he once considered an authority. [...]

(“Frank Watts, do you have authority over you now?”)

[...] The author, while basically correct, ignores for example the reality of reincarnation; and Ruburt’s protests to the contrary, reincarnation belongs both with metaphysics and psychology, and cannot be ignored.

[...] An authority.

[...] An authority.” [...]

[...] The author of Ruburt’s new book calls this God, and I am simply telling you what it is. [...]

[...] 23 Tam Mossman wrote us that Hans Holzer would consider doing the introduction for the Seth Material, provided he was listed as co-author. [...] We had known Mossman might ask Holzer to do an intro, but Holzer’s demand to co-author the book was not suspected by us.

[...] It is no coincidence that Tam is younger than Ruburt, for this to some extent helped water down the idea of Prentice as an authority figure. Eleanor, older and a woman, giving definite instructions, did represent an authority figure, both in literary terms and business-wise.

[...] In this case, however, the book came from a specific source, not just from “out there,” and it is colored by the author’s personality, which is not mine.

[...] It bears the mark of Seth’s personality, as any book carries indelibly within it the stamp of its author, no more and no less. [...]

[...] He also deviated from it in some cases, however, as is every author’s right.

[...] Jane speculated that it could refer to the age of either the publicity director of F. Fell, or to Rhoda Monks, the author of letter # 2. Jane telephoned Frederick Fell on February 8th, and in so doing spoke first to Rhoda Monks; to Jane she sounded as though she could be about that age.

[...] Father Martin is a monk in a nearby monastery close to Elmira, and the author of letter #2, possibly enclosed by the envelope object, is Rhoda Monks.

[...] Rhoda Monks did author letter #2, but letter #3 was written by a woman, also; it is this letter that concerns Jane’s social security number.

[...] Prentice-Hall authorized this venture by a foreign publisher well over a year ago, but we didn’t know just when we’d see books within the two-year limit set for publication. [...]

[...] The authors, however, suppose that the devils have a reality outside of your belief in them, and such is not the case. [...] Therefore, whatever methods the authors used to triumph over these demons is often given as proof not only of the demons’ reality, but of each method’s effectiveness.

[...] It also made him think, however, that he was not changing the world in any way that mattered in any important degree—that those in authority did not even read them, and that even my latest work (Mass Reality) would make no inroads. [...]